To the editors:
Re "A Curve Ball for Foreign Students" (Editorial Notebook, Nov. 4): The writer argues that making baseball knowledge a prerequisite for solving problems "introduces a cultural bias." He couldn't be more, correct. It is the same cultural bias that first-year required to take the T to the MFA to view an exhibit need to overcome. All students, whether for Chicago or Namibia, make an adjustment when they arrive here at Harvard.
We are all required to learn things that people take for granted here, and which, if they go unlearned, prevent us form completing our work. However, students rarely complain about a cultural don't know how to find Vanserg on the day Expos starts.
It is natural that international students will require more of an adjustment than American students will, but learning to overcome a "cultural bias" toward the culture in which they have chosen to live should be part of the education of every student. DAVE WALKER '00 Nov. 5, 1998
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